State Highway 79 (SH 79) is a long
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in
Adams and
Weld counties in
Colorado. The highway is also called "Kiowa–Bennett Road" and "Converse Road". It traverses through remote, open plain. The highway does not pass through any towns. It does service some subdivisions in the area. SH 79's southern terminus is at
Interstate 70 (I-70),
U.S. Route 36
U.S. Route 36 (US 36) is an east–west United States highway that travels approximately from Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado to Uhrichsville, Ohio. The highway's western terminus is at Deer Ridge Junction, an intersection i ...
(US 36),
US 40 and
US 287 south of
Bennett Bennett may refer to:
People
*Bennett (name), including a list of people with the surname and given name
Places Canada
* Bennett, Alberta
*Bennett, British Columbia
* Bennett Lake, in the British Columbia and Yukon Territory
**Bennett Range
**Benn ...
, and the northern terminus is at SH 52 in
Prospect Valley
Prospect may refer to:
General
* Prospect (marketing), a marketing term describing a potential customer
* Prospect (sports), any player whose rights are owned by a professional team, but who has yet to play a game for the team
* Prospect (minin ...
.
Route description
The road begins at
I-70, concurrent there with
US 287,
US 36 and
US 40. It then heads northward into the town of
Bennett Bennett may refer to:
People
*Bennett (name), including a list of people with the surname and given name
Places Canada
* Bennett, Alberta
*Bennett, British Columbia
* Bennett Lake, in the British Columbia and Yukon Territory
**Bennett Range
**Benn ...
, where it abruptly turns eastward and begins a short concurrency with
SH 36
The following highways are numbered 36:
International
* European route E36
Australia
* City Road, Sydney
* Domain Highway, Tasmania
* Arnhem Highway
Canada
*Alberta Highway 36
* Ontario Highway 36
* Saskatchewan Highway 36
China
* G36 Expr ...
. It then heads back northward slowly into a mass of rectangular fields, crossing the
Adams–
Weld county line. It continues northward in the same terrain, crossing numerous county roads, to its north end at
SH 52.
History
The road was established in the 1920s, when it connected Bennett to Prospect. SH 79 was extended to
Elbert County in 1954. The following year, the extension was deleted. The road was entirely paved and extended again down to its current terminus at
Interstate 70 in 1963.
Major intersections
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Colorado State Highway 079
079 79 may refer to:
* 79 (number)
* one of the years 79 BC, AD 79, 1979, 2079
* ''79 A.D.'', a 1962 historical epic film
* Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in Italy
See also
*
* List of highways numbered
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Transportation in Adams County, Colorado
Transportation in Weld County, Colorado